If there was a general election this week, how would you vote?

[TheDullWitch]

OK, quick poll inspired by David Willetts thread. Answer...

1. How you would vote
2. Who you usually vote for
3. Main issue/personality/event which has made your decision.

1. Conservative
2. Conservative
3. Life, the Universe and Everything.

1. Labour (always think about voting Green or Socialist Alliance ...do they still exist ??...but panic in the end in case the Tories get in)
2. Labour.

I grew up in the 1980's (I don't want my ds growing up under the Tories)...and the Tories have consistently shocked me with their arrogance and old boys/girls network. Never considered Lib Dem but would if it meant the Tories would not get in...in fact whilst typing this I have remembered how much I bloody hate Tories !! labour are far from perfect but sooooo much better than anyone else.

I reckon (3) given the general tone of MN (not a complaint, battered old lefty myself).
PMSL at thoughts of your mother trying to get you out of bed, Georgiemama. On a similar theme, I remember my mum trying to explain to me in 1979 exactly why it wasn't a good thing for the feminist cause that Mrs T had just got in (I was a womens libber even before I was a lefty).

Except they did, Uberalice, John Major won a general election in 1992, remember?

Let's see how Gordon does when he has to face the electorate.

Well yes, georgimama, he did. But he didn't go to the polls straight away. I just find that argument a bit weak. Sorry.

1. Unlikely

1. Possible

1. I'd rate that as the most likely.

Let's face it, the constant thread among the ranting weirdos you find online seems to be that the filthy LiarBore government gives money to filthy women so they can push out their filthy spawn to further drain the public purse of money that should rightfully be going on tax cuts for the poor oppressed single angry men of this country.

I suspect much of the Tory vote is among the "angry male weirdo" demographic, and consequently women are underepresented.

Me?

1. Green.
2. Lib Dem.
3. ID Cards, excessive state powers, civil liberties, all the politically correct elite stuff...

The problem with the Conservatives is that if you vote for some of their good ideas (no ID cards, better rail links) you get a whole grab-bag of braying inbreds with policies built to cater for rich, middle aged voters in the South East. Hence the Lib Dem vote...

Brown hasn't gone to the polls either though has he? Despite a manifesto commitment that Tony Blair would serve a full term as PM.

So the best you can say is that they are as bad as each other, and in fact you could say Labour are worse on this point, as Maggie had intention of being ousted, and Labour have broken a manifesto pledge.

Why is civil liberties elite and pc?

Lib Dem, a tactical vote to keep the Tories out

Lib Dem, same reason

Because the Tories are evil

1. Not sure -depends on the spin being produced come election time. Will not be the Tory party. Want to vote Labour - I believe in Gordon but....

2. Labour (and proud)

3. Going to university open my eyes. I work for the NHS and passionately want it to continue. Labour saved the NHS from the tories, but it is an absolute money pit.

I just couldn't vote Tory. Ever. No matter how nice William Hauge is, no matter how nicely Samantha Cameron dresses

[OFF TOPIC: FAO Takver]

"Why is civil liberties elite and pc?"

That's just the vibe I'm getting lately. I had thought about starting an AIBU thread (AIBU to think the term 'politically correct' has now been overused to the point of meaninglessness?). Apparently civil liberities are PC, speed limits are PC, the Data Protection Act is PC, not being rude is PC...

My comment was sarcasm. I believe civil liberties need watched and taken care of in the current climate; but that belief (along with the one about being polite to people) seem to mark me down as a member of the politically correct elite.

I'm slightly worried I'm be taken out and shot if the Tories get in...

MrsGuy, I absolutely PMSL at your comment that the Labour Party ruined the NHS in two years and that they were the ones that introduced the management consultants that infest every hospital in the land now.

You are obviously being ironic.

The Tories had been destroying the NHS for eighteen long painful years before Labour got in, and this Government have made improvements in the NHS.

I was watching a programme the other day about waiting lists for hip operations and they were expressing horror at waiting times of 3 months - under the Tories waiting times of one year or more were not unheard of.

I'm not saying things are perfect in the NHS. Far from it. But the idea that it's safe with the Tories and it's Labour's fault that it's in the mess it's in at the moment is risible.

Alot of the problems that the NHS is now suffering is that science has made such amazing advances in the curing of illness and the NHS budget simply can't cope with the new expense this involves. A much bigger issue than party politics . . .

Don't worry kevlarhead, you're just as likely to be shot by Labour

"Don't worry kevlarhead, you're just as likely to be shot by Labour"

How very comforting... but not if they get the guns on a PFI contract...

1. Tory
2. Labour
3. Sick of the nanny state and everyone in the shithole town i live in thinks they are owed a living for doing chuff all

Interestingly, my Mum's answer to the questions would apparently be:

1. Lib Dem
2. Labour (from the cradle if not before)
3. Civil liberties

This alone makes me think that MNers aside, Labour are in big, big trouble.

I predict a thread of this nature on MN will produce stats along the lines of:

Labour - 93%
Lib dem - 5%
Tory - 1%
Other - 1%

A labour Gov'mt without Brown 0 lost me on the 10p tax, otherwise Lib Dem. Never Tory...can't bear the each to their own apporach hidden behind a friendly agenda.

Labour have done so much for education and I really don't think they are getting the credit for what they have put in.

I'd vote lib dem as long as they don't still have that mad idea about upping income tax to higher earners.

Couldn't vote tory as they'd bring back foxhunting.

Have always voted labour before but, well.....

Good on yer for starting this thread.

1. Lib Dem (to keep out Tories - marginal seat here)
2. Varies depending on where I live. Prime aim is to keep out the Tories.
3. Memory and knowledge of what Tories really stand for - looking after people like themselves.

1. How you would vote
2. Who you usually vote for
3. Main issue/personality/event which has made your decision

1.Labour
2.In the last few elections (local and general) I've voted Lib Dems but I was always a Labour supporter before.

1. Keep the tories out.

1. Labour
2. Mix of Labour/Respect/Socialist Alliance
3. Could never vote Tory or Lib Dem, don't want Surestart funded stuff to disappear this financial year (don't want it to at all but would particularly prefer to have those things it's funded in my area to enjoy with dc2 next year). My observations of Lib Dems in power in local government is that they're yellow Tories, in opposition they're annoying cynical opportunists and I don't believe a word they say.

I don't like lots of Labour government policies (I'm anti war, and in favour of public spending being put into public services not the pockets of private companies), but I have no respect left for the left of Labour parties I've on occasion voted for previously. I haven't actually voted for my local Labour MP in two general elections and a bye-election, and in 1997 I was still registered to vote in Leeds and felt my vote would make more difference there, but I probably will vote for him this time as I don't see anyone offering an alternative.

1. How you would vote
2. Who you usually vote for
3. Main issue/personality/event which has made your decision.

YAY for posting this Dullwitch!

1 Labour
2 Labout - Greens sometimes in local election but always labour at national govt changing times.
3 I remember - just!- the misery of the Thatcher years and would never trust a Tory! The Tory party do the devil's work, plust Gordy and young David are such HOTTIES!

Green
Labour
No matter how shit and hypocrital this Labour government has been it is as nothing compared to the utter horror and hypocrisy of the Tories the last time round under Thatcher and Major. From their 'back to basics/family values' one rule for you while we all shag ourselves stupid with whoever falls across our desk rulings to the complete destruction of civil liberties under thatcher, the poll tax, the championing of the individual over society etc etc etc ad nauseum. Nobody should forget that and no matter how David Cameron spins it he ain't conning me.